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An autobiographical novel from 1963 in which Natalia Ginzburg recalls her childhood and youth in Turin with the Levis, a Jewish anti-fascist family dominated by her father, the histologist Giuseppe Levi, from the 1930s to the 1950s. The book's thread is the household's own phrases and sayings, almost a secret language, and parents, siblings and friends such as Cesare Pavese appear under their real names: the author states she invented nothing.

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Who it's for
For readers of memoirs and family novels, and for anyone who wants to see Italy under fascism and the war from inside one household. Marta Sanz says many women writers learned to write about their own lives from this book.
Why people still read it
It won the Strega Prize in 1963 and has been translated into languages including Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Elena Ferrante included it among the forty books by women she considers essential, and Italo Calvino and Carmen Martín Gaite praised it.

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